Treasury referred PwC to AFP after ‘clearly disturbing’ emails revealed, Senate hears

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Senator Barbara Pocock has requested PwC release the names of partners understood to be involved, saying she is ‘confident they will reach the public’

PwC emails referring to tax policy information that was “supposed to be secret” are “clearly disturbing”, Treasury secretary, Steven Kennedy, has told a parliamentary committee.

Kennedy made that remark on Tuesday, revealing that 144 pages of emails brought to light by the Senate economics committee had been “important” in the Treasury’s decision to refer the misuse of confidential information to the Australian federal police for criminal investigation.

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